A New Study of the Political History of the Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties from the Perspective of East Eurasian History

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370844
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: History of Asia and Africa
• Research Institution: Daito Bunka University (2015-2016); Otemae University (2014)
• Principal Investigator: OBI TAKAO 大東文化大学, 文学部, 講師 (90526675)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): SAGAWA Eiji 東京大学, 大学院人文社会系研究科, 准教授 (00343286)
• Research Collaborator: WATANABE Masatomo ; TOGAWA Takayuki ; AIDA Daisuke ; OKABE Takeshi ; SAITO Shigeo
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 東部ユーラシア史 / 魏晋南北朝 / 政治史

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In the past, the political history of the Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties has often been strongly influenced by official histories and discussed within the framework of the history of each dynasty. The aim of the present study has been to reconsider their political history not within such past frameworks but from the broader historical perspective of East Eurasian history. As well as examining in concrete detail the influence that war, migration, trade, cultural exchange, and so on had on the politics of each dynasty in each period, I have confirmed that behind events that may at first sight appear to have been domestic political incidents there lay the influence of a pluralistic world transcending the bounds of individual dynasties. I have also proposed a new periodization of the overall history of the Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Free Research Field

中国魏晋南北朝史